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Re: Poll: What smartphone do you use?

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Other - no smart phone. Often no phone at all. I own a flip phone with a usable tactile keyboard (for texting), but I try to leave it at home as often as possible and I discourage people from contacting me too much on it. There are a lot of good arguments in favor of all the wonderful things smartphones do for people. I'm not going to argue against any of them. But I'm also old enough to remember how people used to s…

I own a smartphone and almost never receive phone calls, my friends know to text or email me. I also never reply to texts immediately, unless it is urgent. I had information overload for many years and in the last year it's been delightful to escape this stuff. I achieved it mostly by adjusting behaviour and communicating to friends my preferences, not by abandoning tech.

I still carry my phone with me everywhere. It is useful when sitting on a bus, in a bathroom, doctors office, etc where you need to kill time and don't have a book. Or for utility reasons such as GPS, weather, public transit times, and booking a Hailo/Uber.

I can use the latter without sacrificing my connectedness to the present world.

Do you feel that if you carry it around, you'll feel compelled to use it? Or people will start contacting you more? Is it worth the sacrifice of utility?

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